Through the decay and debris of a crumbling infrastructure, chasing the championship parade that never marches, the New York Knicks‘ recruitment to retain Carmelo Anthony comes with the promise to pursue Kevin Love into the franchise’s 2015 salary-cap space.

The Knicks are buried in salary-cap hell through 2014, awaiting Amar’e Stoudemire ($23.4 million), Tyson Chandler ($14.3 million) and Andrea Bargnani ($12 million) to expire. The Knicks are sold on Love in 2015, sources tell Yahoo Sports, and they’ve already begun devising a strategy to lure him when the time comes.